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Originally Posted by Poppaea
@Presti
After thinking about the "hear" I realised we do something similar like this in German. Maybe it is a common thing to say "hearing from somebody" in all languages as they were spoken before they were written, as the word for language is in most languages tied to the word for tongue.
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I think you're onto something.
That sense of telling a story with sonic resonance, that proximity of style to music and sustained narratives to bedtime yarns, all these are powerful aspects of the task, aspects of which most writers I know are mindful. Any archaisms I might use have been poked and squinted at by friends whose goal has been to purge their writing of obvious formality and artifice because they aspire to the natural immediacy of campfire stories. (However, my sense of music is decidedly vintage and I have to be true to that, hence the endless appositives and semi-quaint diction.)
I will say that heard writing -- in the sense of Lautremont's, who was said to write while striking piano chords -- often carries a kind of transmutative spell.